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As this is a forum all about reading, it would seem to me that all of us here probably love "books" more than the average user. Many of us seem to be the types of people who have hundreds if not thousands of books in our homes. I think that for most people an e-book reader is years away from making any kind of economic sense, and for many people the one or two books they pick up a year as impulse buys at the airport just don't clutter up their homes enough to matter.
However, I for one have loved getting rid of the cheap books and replacing them with digital copies and if I say I love it, I doubt that there are words to describe how my wife feels about getting rid of the book "clutter." Ecstatic is probably as close as you could get. I plan on still having full bookshelves, but they will be filled with books that are first editons, or nice leather bound copies. They will be books that are as much works of art as a painting that is hung on the wall. Like somebody else mentioned, no matter how far technology progresses I would never put up LCD screens on my walls to mimic paintings, nor does a cheap poster replicate a fine piece of art.
There is room for both e-books and p-books, but hopefully the dynamic will shift back to finer p-books. I hope that as the e-book reader market grows more publishers will see it as an opportunity to release nicer books, and capitalize on my sentimental attachment to p-books while at the same time I am buying digital copies of the same books.
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